Large Expenditure Is Provided In Navy Supply Program
Washington March 21 AP A target for Democratic Lega ever since he justified recently in the Senate oil committee inquiry Secretary Mellon today faced the withering fire of four prominent members of his own party aimed at his resignation from the cabinet. The resolution lists grounds including indifference to law, defiance of law, and calls for Mellon's retirement. It cites Mellon’s ties to Gulf Oil, Mexican Gulf Oil, and other corporations, a 1926 Pennsylvania campaign role, tax cases involving Mellon enterprises, and alleged improper decisions benefitting Mellon interests. The move mirrors past recalls of Denby and Daugherty resignations amid oil inquiries. The Senate may not compel resignations. debate awaits rules.
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Navy
Mellon
Washington
Democratic Lega
Senate Oil Committee
Mellon Tiday
Enator Couzens
Michigan
Treasury
Pres
Denby
Teapot Dome
Harry V. Sinclair
Senate
Daugherty
Dent Coolidge
Couzens
Sinclair
Euests
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Senate Coal Inquiry
Pennsylvania
Melion
Gulf Oil Corporation
Gypsy
Senate Committee
Internal Revenue
Plane missing pair Hinchecliffe and Mackey rumor found
Rumor circulated that Captain Walter Hinchecliffe and Hon. Elsie Mackey were aboard a trans Atlantic flight from England and had been found near Patten Maine with their bodies. The Associated Press found no confirmation of the report.
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Banggr
Maine
Walter Hinchcliffe
Elsie Machay
England
Patten
Associated Press
Execution near for couple in taxi-driver slaying
A New York woman Doris McDonald, sentenced to hang, had her sentence commuted to life imprisonment in Ottawa. Her husband George McDonald remains condemned to death as the governor general approved the commutation for her and affirmed his death sentence.
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Ottawa
Ont
Doris McDonald
Younty
New York
George McDonald
Governor General
Endurance flyer Geng Shank loses record attempt in gas line crash
In St Paul, Geng Shank's 90 horsepower biplane ended a 12 hour 88 minute flight when a refueling line severed by the plane's propeller caused a crash at the White Bear Lake ice field. He fell short of the solar flight and world endurance marks but set a class record. he vowed to try again within days.
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St, Paul
Marely 2
Geng Shank
White Bear Lake
Shank
Wopeller
Esc
Ianes
Harry Brooks
Municipal Field
Wut
Lindbergh Receives Congressional Medal at White House
President Coolidge awarded Col Charles A Lindbergh the congressional medal of honor, praising heroic courage and skill in the New York to Paris flight. Notables including Vice President Dawes and Speaker Longworth witnessed the ceremony on the White House lawn. Lindbergh then gave tours for members of Congress, who expressed evident pleasure with the aerial rides.
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America
Coolidge
Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
New York
Paris
Lindberga
White House
Dawes
Longworth
Curtis
Ksansas
Robinson
Arkansas
Senate
Tilson
Connecticut
Garrett
Tennessee
House
Wilbur
Hoover
New
Warner
Naval Aeronautics
Moffett
Bureau of Naval Aeronautics
Charles PL Summerall
Staf
Davis
MacCracken
Commerce Department
Berty
United States
Mexico City
Central America
Nedal
Sas
Edith Nourse Rogers
Mass
Katherine Langley
Kentucky
Rogers
Col
Congress
President Coolidge
Manslaughter Sentence for John W Faison in Virginia Case
Richmond report on John W Faison a former Sunday school superintendent and Hermitage club ex manager sentenced to one year in prison for voluntary manslaughter in the death of his divorcee Elsie Holt Snipes. The term may drop to eight months for good conduct. Faison offered no statement and did not appeal. Mrs Faison mother of five children showed emotion as verdict pronounced.
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Richmond
John W. Faison
Elsie Holt Snipes
Hermitage Club
Faison
Democrat Money Handler Testifies About T Pot Comish Era
Wilbur M. Marek testifies before the Teapot Dome committee that he served as Democratic treasurer in name only after the 1920 campaign due to illness. He denies any agreement with Fred W. Upham of the Republican committee and says clerks ran finances. questions about unusual 1925 contributions arise as the party shows a deficit.
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Marsh
Washington
Wilbur M. Marek
Democratic National Committee
Senate
Fred W. Upham
Republian National Committee
Walsh
Montana
Chicago
Int G. Hipsey
A. V. Leonard
Upnam
Ther Marsh
Congress
Upham
Senator Walsh
Nye
North Dakota
Democratic Party
Fifteen Penn students arrested after basketball victory celebration
Fifteen University of Pennsylvania undergraduates including the senior class president were taken into custody after Penn defeated Princeton to win the eastern intercollegiate league title. About 1,000 celebrants crowded West Philadelphia, clashed with police reserves, halted traffic, and ignited a bonfire. Police used hoses to disperse the crowd. McDowell was jailed briefly on inciting riot charges before release for hearing.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Penn
Princeton
West Philadelphia
Camnus
John McDowell
Palestra
Formance
Oone
McDowell
Smith Resents Being Used in Oil Scandal
ALBANY N Y March 21 The governor resents insinuations and slander on the floor of the U S Senate he says were aimed at making people think he benefited from air scandals in a letter to Senator Nye of North Dakota he calls the statements false and reckless He cites a similar remark by Senator Robinson of Indiana and says a records search shows Harry F Sinclair did not contribute to his 1920 or later campaigns.
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Albany
N. Y
Maren
Smith
U U. S. Senate
Nye
North Dakota
Robinson
Indiana
New York State
Harry F. Sinclair
Weather summary for regions of Virginia and Tennessee
Fair tonight and Thursday with warmer Thursday across Virginia and Tennessee. Northwest winds backing to west and southwest, moderate. Readings reported from the local weather station by Bunn, with 6 daily observations. High and low temperatures compared to the previous year, and rainfall data noted.
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Virginia
Tennessee
S. Weather Station
Bunn
Bootleg associate of McDermott found slain in car near Cleveland
Morris Nadel bootlegger who sheltered Pat McDermott and tied to Canton editor Don Mellett murder was found dead with two others on a deserted road. Both victims were shot in the car, killed likely by gunmen who fled in a second vehicle. Investigators link the killings to Northern Ohio bootlegging feuds post Mellett murder. Nadel faced a $25,000 bond on a prior charge related to Harboring a felon. McDermott remains imprisoned for life in Ohio.
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Cleveland, D
Morris Nadel
Pat McDernott
Don R. Mellett
Canton
Nadel
Edward J. Rasipussen
Painesville
Franko Story
Cleveland
Ohio
Mellett
McDermott
Navy supply bill would fund 27 planes and new ships
The Navy department supply bill proposals call for 31,315,000 for heavier-than-air aviation plus 10,006,000 contract authorizations to deliver 27 planes in 1928 29 and to start two new divisibles. The plan envisions finishing eight cruisers and two V type submarines by 1930 and increases the marine corps allotment to 54 186 006. The committee notes rising costs and urges consideration of federal needs beyond service priorities while probing safety measures after the S 4 disaster and recommending 200 000 for undersea salvage work with assigned salvage ships for major oceans.
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Washington
Navy Department
Bet
French
Reprbtigan
Fdahe
Naval Ay
Marine Corps
Nicaragua
China
Falcon
Widgeon
Ortolan
Inoer
Atlantic
Canal Zone
Pacific Coast
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Wilbur W. Marsh
Jessie Downing
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